Analytics

Is a Great Website a Worthwhile Investment?
May 23, 2017 at 11:31 am

Do you think your digital presence is vital? Most of your potential donors, employees, volunteers and people who need what your organization offers will find you through your website. As a specialist in the nonprofit digital marketing field, one of the biggest issues I face with clients is their website...

An Over-Saturated Charitable Experience
May 22, 2017 at 9:55 am

In a previous blog post, I briefly examined what appears to be a growing sentiment in the nonprofit industry that direct mail fundraising is somehow flawed. Fundraisers have been slow to abandon outdated business practices or to evolve quick enough to react to the mounting challenges facing nonprofits today—and yes, there are many that we must overcome...

Create More Brand Awareness With Google AdWords
May 5, 2017 at 9:25 am

Let’s face it—there’s a plethora of information out in the vast cyberspace about different types of technologies available to help improve your nonprofit. It can all get a little confusing, can’t it? But it all comes down to what your nonprofit it looking to improve. Are you looking to create more brand awareness to drive more donations? Let’s take a look at a tool out there that we’ve all heard of, but (maybe) are not taking advantage of...

The Future of Donor Acquisition Is Digital
April 25, 2017 at 10:53 am

Monthly giving is seeing double-digit increases in year-over-year growth, and for good reason. Nonprofits depend on a continuously scalable base of donors and revenue to fund their important missions and services. Among the many options in an organization’s fundraising portfolio, monthly giving offers a more reliable, steady income stream that is resilient to economic ups and downs...

Assisted Conversions: Storytelling at Its Best
December 20, 2016 at 10:30 am

The word “attribution” is feared by many in the marketing arena because it is so hard to tackle. But, at least look at Assisted Conversions in Google Analytics.

Model Wars: Data Science and Politics
November 8, 2016 at 8:00 am

The last few days have brought something unusual to the news: a battle of the data scientists. Yep, that’s right—data science people fighting about the validity of models for polling predictions. I find this very unusual. Data scientists compete all the time. But there is rarely an argument about what is empirically correct and valid...

Why This Analytics Firm Is Pledging $100M to Nonprofits
September 29, 2016 at 8:00 am

Cloud software giant Salesforce is well-known for baking corporate philanthropy into its financial model and workplace culture at its founding way back in 1999—pledging 1 percent of its equity, 1 percent of its employees’ work hours and 1 percent of its products to charitable causes. That strategy has inspired many tech companies born since that…